Mr. Chu couldn't resist Xu Shiyan's request, and finally agreed to help him try it out.
After getting Mr. Chu's promise, Xu Shiyan felt confident.
"Master, I won't eat at your place for lunch today. It's the weekend and I have to go shopping and buy something."
The weather is getting warmer, so it’s nice to go out for a walk if you have nothing to do.
Xu Shiyan is not very interested in parks and the like.
It's best to go to those places with your wife. It's quite interesting for the two of you to walk around and watch Jing'er chatting.
Why would he go to the park alone? See other young lovers loving each other? Isn’t that nonsense?
The weather is getting warm, and Xu Shiyan doesn't have many clothes with him, so he has to buy some clothes, shoes and socks.
After asking around, I was told that there are several large markets on Guangfu Road where clothes are sold and they are quite cheap.
Men don't care so much as long as they can wear it, so Xu Shiyan took the car and went straight to Guangfu Road.
At the end of Guangfu Road, there is a relatively famous place, Xiaobailou, which was the palace of Emperor Kant.
Therefore, Guangfu Road Market was very famous during the Manchukuo period.
The open-air market here is very lively, and there are all kinds of products, which are dazzling to see.
Xu Shiyan was not in a hurry, so he just walked around and looked around. If he saw something he liked, he would buy it. If he didn't find something, he would forget it.
There are also a lot of snacks on the street. When you get hungry, just find a place to sit down and have a bowl of noodles or something.
Xu Shiyan was eating noodles. Occasionally he looked up and saw someone passing by with a pot of clivia in his arms.
Xu Shiyan was stunned for a moment. Why did he feel that the figure was so familiar? It seemed to be Wu Jinsheng, the younger brother of his fourth wife's family.
No, the camp is so far away from the provincial capital. How could Wu Jinsheng be here?
But the figure looked more and more like him. Xu Shiyan quickly took the inside of the bowl and put it into his mouth. After paying the boss, he wanted to catch up and take a closer look.
As a result, when I was paying, I turned around and the man was gone.
Xu Shiyan searched everywhere but couldn't find it.
The main reason is that there are too many people here, people are coming and going continuously, and it is really difficult to find someone in the sea of people.
Xu Shiyan walked around and didn't see the figure just now, so he had to give up.
"Forget it, maybe I was dazzled just now and saw it wrong." Xu Shiyan shook his head and comforted himself.
"Brother, come and take a look at these things. They are all old things."
Xu Shiyan was standing on the street corner, and there happened to be a young man setting up a stall there.
When the young man saw Xu Shiyan standing there looking around, he thought he wanted to buy something, so he greeted him.
Xu Shiyan turned to look at the stall and was stunned for a moment, what are these?
Weird and dark in the middle of winter?
Many things were so dark with dirt that they couldn't even tell what they looked like originally.
"Brother, what are you selling? If you look at this dark and midwinter thing, you can't even see its true colors."
With nothing to do, Xu Shiyan started chatting with the young man.
"Brother, don't you understand this? How can old objects not gather dust after a long time?
Oops, to tell you the truth, aren't we cleaning up the house? We dug out these things.
I didn’t know them very well, so my grandma kept saying that they were old things and I should keep them.
I thought it was taking up space, so I thought of setting up a stall here.
Anyway, just put it up for a few days, and no one wants to take it down. If it doesn't work, just sell it to the rag collector.
Brother, take a look, if there's anything you like, just take it, it's not expensive anyway."
The young man didn't know whether what he said was true or not, but he seemed quite sincere.
When Xu Shiyan thought about it, he had already bought everything he needed to buy, and there was nothing else to do, so he just took a look.
So I stood in front of the stall, picking up various items and taking a look at them.
Indeed, they are all old things from the past, including an old-fashioned tin wine jug, a pharmacy scale, an old-fashioned iron, the locks on an old-fashioned wooden box, an old bamboo pen holder, a powder box, a weight, and a glass lamp holder.
,lantern.
Anyway, there are all kinds of people, old and young, some of them Xu Shiyan can recognize, some of them can't.
Xu Shiyan took a look around, but there was nothing he could see.
What can I say about these things? Keeping them for future generations will have more commemorative significance, but their collection value is not high.
"These things of yours are really not easy to sell, so I guess you might as well sell them to a purchasing station.
There are a lot of copper, iron, and tin in here, and they might be worth a few dollars."
In recent years, the recycling prices of various metals are not low, especially copper and tin, which are not cheap.
While Xu Shiyan was talking, his hand happened to be next to a black-bone object that looked like a weight.
He picked it up casually and weighed it. He was about to think that this thing should be made of copper, it was quite heavy, and he might be able to sell it for some money.
After taking a closer look, it seemed something was wrong. It was not a weight, but rather a seal.
Xu Shiyan was shocked. If this was a seal, it might mean something interesting.
Xu Shiyan didn't dare to show any expression, he just put down the thing and looked at something else.
There is a circular ring at the end. Look at it, it is a little smaller than that kind of door knocker, and it is also slightly oval.
I don’t know what this thing is, but it is black anyway, with a layer of sludge-like substance on the outside, so that the true color cannot be seen.
"Do you know what this is?"
Xu Shiyan picked up the ring and felt it was quite heavy. He didn't know what material it was made of, so he just asked casually.
"I don't know, it was all left in my breast. Now that she has applied it in Laohu, she doesn't know anything when I ask her, she just says she is keeping it.
What can you do with these crappy things?" The young man shook his head, wondering.
"Yeah, I've been hanging around here for a long time, picking and looking at it, and it's quite a waste of your time.
Don’t just look at it and buy it, let’s do this, don’t worry about anything, I’ll pick two items, even if we are buddies who are destined to do so.”
Xu Shiyan seemed to inadvertently pull the ring and the weight-like thing together.
"How much do these two cost? If it's cheap, I'll take it."
The young man glanced at them and said, "Okay, give me eight yuan for these two."
That thing seems to be made of copper. If I sell it to a rag collector, they will probably give me three or four yuan."
The young man gritted his teeth and asked for eight yuan.
To be honest, apart from the metal ones that can be sold as junk, the rest are of no use at all, so you don’t want them for free.
The copper lump was sold to the rag collector for two yuan at most, but the ring was worthless in the eyes of the young man, so selling them together for eight yuan was considered a good deal.
"Eight yuan is a bit expensive, so why don't you give me something else?
I think this small box is good, so I’ll go back and wash it and make it clean, so I can coddle my daughter.”
Xu Shiyan casually picked up another small wooden box.
There is a very small lock on the wooden box, which looks very delicate. Let’s just keep this thing for my daughter to play with.
"Okay, you can just take the box and give me eight yuan for these three items." The young man was quite happy and agreed happily.
Xu Shiyan took out the money, counted eight yuan and handed it to the other party, then put these three items into his pocket, turned around and left.